Around the world, feminist activists have successfully combated autocracy — most recently in South Korea. U.S. grant makers concerned about Trump’s strongman tendencies should take note.

Funders committed to civic participation need to get more comfortable with the notion of “risky” grantmaking in order to better protect and support our grantees on the front lines and counter the authoritarian forces truly making our communities less safe. Now is a time for us to show more courage, not less.

This article, first published in Nordia, examines how Spain’s Vox party reframes climate change from a global problem to a national one, asserts national innocence in the face of claims of global climate justice, and frames mainstream climate action as part of a broader globalist imposition that threatens the purity of national culture.